MBA March 2018 Curriculum/Grading
Welcome to Smartly! Here's the course syllabus for your program. It's strongly recommended that you follow the schedule below to complete your required lessons per week.
**Final Score**
Your final score in Smartly will consist of a weighted average of the following:
- 20%: SmartCase scores (your best score for each SmartCase)
- 70%: Midterm and Final Exam scores
- 10%: Projects: Accounting and Marketing Case Studies
Learn more about how grades are calculated
here.
**Community**
Smartly will use Slack as a platform for getting to know your classmates and engaging in additional discussion. We will post exercises, articles, and videos each week in Slack to extend what you're learning and give you opportunities for extra practice.
**Projects**
You will be graded on your performance on two projects, an Accounting Case Study and a Marketing Project. You can work alone or in groups of up to 5. Learn more about project grades
here.
**Exams**
The Midterm will focus on the material learned in the first 3 concentrations (Accounting, Markets & Economies, and Data & Decisions). Learn more about the Midterm
here.
The Final Exam will focus on the remaining 5 concentrations. See below for the midterm and final exam window dates. Learn more about the Final Exam here.
**Course Schedule**
| Week 1: March 26 | Accounting I: Fundamentals Accounting II: Revenues and Expenses |
| Week 2: April 2 | Stocks and Bonds Accounting III: Financial Statements |
| Week 3: April 9 | Accounting IV: Working with Ratios Managerial Accounting |
| Week 4: April 16 | Accounting Group Project Creating Financial Statements in Excel (optional, but recommended if you have Excel) |
| Week 5: April 23 | Accounting Group Project Due Submit Accounting Group Project by the end of the week Creating Financial Statements in Excel (optional, but recommended if you have Excel) |
| Week 6: April 30 | Microeconomics I: Supply and Demand (review if needed) Microeconomics II: Shape Your Economic Worldview |
| Week 7: May 7 | Microeconomics III: Markets and Externalities Macroeconomics: Economic Fluctuations |
| Week 8: May 14 | Macroeconomics: US Fiscal and Monetary Policy Macroeconomics: International Trade |
| Week 9: May 21 | Break - Spend this time getting caught up with the schedule, if needed. |
| Week 10: May 28 | One-Variable Statistics (review if needed) Probability Fundamentals |
| Week 11: June 4 | Probability Distributions Excel for One-Variable Statistics (optional, but recommended if you have Excel) *Note: You can find the Excel course in your Library. |
| Week 12: June 11 | Two-Variable Statistics (review if needed) Regression Analysis |
| Week 13: June 18 | Break - Spend this time getting caught up with the schedule, if needed. |
| Week 14: June 25 | Excel for Two-Variable Statistics and Regression Analysis (optional, but recommended if you have Excel) Data Collection *Note: You can find the Excel course in your Library. |
| Week 15: July 2 | Statistical Inference: Making Data-Driven Decisions |
| Week 16: July 9 | Advanced Statistical Inference |
| Week 17: July 14 | Midterm Review Midterm Exam Practice (optional) *Note: You can find the Midterm Exam Practice here. |
| Week 18: July 18—July 29 | Midterm Exam: Accounting, Markets & Economies, and Data & Decisions |
| Week 19: July 30 | Organizational Behavior: Working in Groups and Teams Organizational Structure and Culture |
| Week 20: August 6 | Theories of Leadership Developing a Corporate Philosophy |
| Week 21: August 13 | Business Ethics and Social Responsibility The Art of Negotiation |
| Week 22: August 20 | Marketing Fundamentals (review if needed) Marketing Mechanics |
| Week 23: August 27 | Brand Development and Management Digital Marketing Fundamentals A/B Testing for Marketers |
| Week 24: September 3 | Pricing I: Fundamentals Pricing II: Price Segmentation to Maximize Profit |
| Week 25: September 10 | Marketing Group Project |
| Week 26: September 17 | Finance: Time Value of Money (review if needed) Cost of Capital I: Capital Structure Cost of Capital II: The Modigliani-Miller Theorem |
| Week 27: September 24 | Capital Budgeting Modern Portfolio Theory |
| Week 28: October 1 | Valuation I: Discounted Free Cash Flow Valuation II: Equity & Market Valuations |
| Week 29: October 8 | Break - Spend this time getting caught up with the schedule, if needed. |
| Week 30: October 15 | Marketing Group Project Due Submit Marketing Group Project by the end of the week |
| Week 31: October 22 | Project Management |
| Week 32: October 29 | Operations Management Fundamentals Operations Management: Managing Uncertainty of Demand |
| Week 33: November 5 | Forecasting Fundamentals Supply Chain Management |
| Week 34: November 12 | Strategy I: Business-Level Strategy Strategy II: Corporate-Level Strategy |
| Week 35: November 19 | Strategy III: International Strategy Innovation Fundamentals |
| Week 36: November 26 | Strategy Case Study |
| Week 37: December 1 | Final Exam Review Final Exam Practice: Operations Management (optional) |
| Week 38: December 9—December 23 | Final Exam: Leading Organizations, Marketing & Pricing, Finance, Supply Chain & Operations, Strategy & Innovation |